Test 6 · ★★ · The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda
You find a white rock on a walk. A drop of vinegar makes it fizz. What might it be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, drop, vinegar · What happens: find, make, fizz, be · To what, where: white rock, walk, vinegar
This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 18 «The fizz: vinegar, lemon and soda» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: You find a white rock on a walk.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rock | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rock | amod |
| 5 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 walk | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 walk | det |
| 8 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | You | a white rock | a walk | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: A drop of vinegar makes it fizz.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 drop | det |
| 2 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 vinegar | case |
| 4 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | nmod |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 makes | obj |
| 7 | fizz | fizz | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | a drop of vinegar | vinegar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fizz | infinitive | vinegar not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Sentence 3: What might it be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 be | obj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 be | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 be | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | might | drop | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A piece of granite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 piece | det |
| 2 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 granite | case |
| 4 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piece | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Coal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Limestone or chalk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Limestone | limestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 chalk | cc |
| 3 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Limestone | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A lump of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lump | det |
| 2 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lump | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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